Book Auction Records, Volume 12Frank Karslake Wm. Dawson, 1915 - Autographs A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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... published under the title " Catalogus universalis librorum omnium in Bibliothecâ Collegii Sionii ex officinâ Typographicâ Rob . Leybourn . ” With the Restoration , the College , together with practically all other com- munities ...
... published under the title " Catalogus universalis librorum omnium in Bibliothecâ Collegii Sionii ex officinâ Typographicâ Rob . Leybourn . ” With the Restoration , the College , together with practically all other com- munities ...
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... published Greek Testament , and was issued at Basle by John Froben in 1516. Another rarity is a Latin Bible bearing upon its title - page the autograph of Bishop Hugh Latimer . " " " Closely allied to the foregoing section is the ...
... published Greek Testament , and was issued at Basle by John Froben in 1516. Another rarity is a Latin Bible bearing upon its title - page the autograph of Bishop Hugh Latimer . " " " Closely allied to the foregoing section is the ...
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... published posthumously in 1646 and 1660 . Richard Houldsworth , President 1639 , was an ardent Royalist and an eloquent preacher . At first a moderate Puritan and an opponent of Laud , he , on the commencement of the Civil War , veered ...
... published posthumously in 1646 and 1660 . Richard Houldsworth , President 1639 , was an ardent Royalist and an eloquent preacher . At first a moderate Puritan and an opponent of Laud , he , on the commencement of the Civil War , veered ...
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... published his lectures under the title of " Prælectiones Poeticæ " His sermons were issued in 1739 , and for many years he occupied himself with the production of Church Tory Tracts , and in controversies with Roman Catholics and ...
... published his lectures under the title of " Prælectiones Poeticæ " His sermons were issued in 1739 , and for many years he occupied himself with the production of Church Tory Tracts , and in controversies with Roman Catholics and ...
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... published in three volumes in 1782 , and contained the autobiography , a work on the Prophecies , and a collection of dissertations and sermons , since when many other editions have appeared . It is interesting to reflect that an ...
... published in three volumes in 1782 , and contained the autobiography , a work on the Prophecies , and a collection of dissertations and sermons , since when many other editions have appeared . It is interesting to reflect that an ...
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Page 234 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.
Page lxv - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 85 - Leaves of Grass," a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues.
Page 62 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Page 234 - ... style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts.
Page lxviii - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 388 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Page 225 - In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it, Picture it, — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, — drink of it, Then, if you can!
Page 217 - Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, King John, K.
Page 103 - Sargent was down again and painted a portrait of me walking about in my own dining-room, in my own velveteen jacket, and twisting as I go my own moustache ; at one corner a glimpse of my wife, in an Indian dress, and seated in a chair that was once my grandfather's, but since some months goes by the name of Henry James's — for it was there the novelist loved to sit — adds a touch of poesy and comicality.